Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-08-20
story Of che ThSssoe.

THE SCOTCH cUrTtR, Bra ct-TsTN AND CRvw.
The Thistle, the latest arc greatest achievement
OF English yacht designers sad tui,ders dropped
anchor In New York Bay at O'Clock yesterday
morning. after a voyage q: twenty-one days from
Gourock, Ireland. The Philadelphia Press says:
She has crossed the Atlantic TO win back-if any
English boat can-the International ChaliengeCup
which the America brought 10 this country In
ISL after heating "out OF sight" eighteen OF the
| fastest English yachts In Englands waters. After
the successive defeats of the Genesta 10y the
Puritan a. the Galatea by the Maynower, In iss5
and 1s5t. syndicate Of Clyde yachtsmen. headed
by the Messrs. Bell sent notice 10 this country
III al IL their intention 10 build yacht 10
cutter Thistle designed nv Mr.. Geo. l. Watson. of
Glasgow, and built by Messrs Henderson Son, OF
Patrick-on-the-Clyde. Her dimensions are: Length
on water line, ~ feet: beam, ~ feet Inches;
depth OF hold, IL feet inch. With Captain Barr "a
sailing master, she began
HEN RACING CAREER
on May %, by winning the race from southend 20
Harwtch, defeating Genesta and IreN by almost
two and three-quarters hours. Al Harwich she
missed the outer mark In a fog. IreN winning. with
GeneSta second. In the run back To southern
Thistle finished first, but lreN saved her time
allowance and won. on the mouth OF the Thames
she won two matches beating lreN by seventeen
minutes In a ffty-me course. She finished nrss
IN the second match, but on time allowance
wenden and Neptune were placed INST and second.
In the frum the More 10 Dover Thistle into
a calm and was left behind. on Dover she beat
| lreN by about i've minutes. SHIFT was now made
| 10 Liverpool waters where Thistle beat lreX
twenty-five minutes forty-Seconds, IN the Royal
Mersey cub race. In two races given 10y the
Northern Yacht Clnb Thistle ..gain beat lrex, the
first time by four minutes and thirty eight seconds
and the second time by two minutes and eight
| seconds. AT the Mudhook Regatta Thistle beat
| IreN 10y eighteen minutes. In the Royal clyde and
other regattas on the clyde Thistle defeated lrex
/ five times, the difference In time being from two
minutes 10 ten minutes. That she Is the best boat
| owned In British waters Is an assured fact, and
| various estimates have been made as 10 her
superiority over the Genesta, which Is taken 20 be
| not quite equal 10 the Puritan. The Thistle has
| thus FAR shown herself about a. much faster than
the Genesta as our unbeaten Volunteer is faster
| than the Puritan. The coming race between the
| crack English and American yachts is thus likely
| 10 be tae closest ana most exciting contest THAR
has ever occurred for the Americas Cup. May
| the best boat win-the Volunteer Will. We believe.
CAPT. BARR AND HIS ASSOCIATES
on the Thistle. says the New York sun, are good
| natured and eKtremely modest set OF men. They
do not disguise their pride and confidence in their
| boat, but they dsclaim any strong belief that they
Viii succeed In freighting the America = cap back
to taeir mailing port OF GLASGOW. II is easy TO see,
though, that they have high hopes. Capt. Barr
| responded heartily 10 "A request 10 be allowed 10
looh over the boat mot the slightest objection"
| WAS the way he put It,
But can We see her bottom when you haul her
| up: aeAeG the reporter, "you see We don't knoW
| anything about her lines over here"
".yeii," replied the cautious skipper "the de.
sigher VII be over here then, and he Will have AL
| the say about that"
| thrown around the boat at her launching We're Rot
| Well founded. Her canvas cover was taken on
| lilly Tea minutes before she started down the
| WAS, and every body who was there could all
| there Was OF her. She has also been out two or
| three times since without any sw adding clotheA
| But he admitted that these exhibitions were not
Sery wei advertised TO the general public and
peclally TO inquistiye Americans. The peculiarly
OF the material OF her sails he also described
! being nothing exclusive. The Irex wears the
same goods as We'll as Others OF the cracks He
says that they call IL silk, but that he does not
think there Is any silk In It. But IL Is very light
| and strong. lie did not seem particularly grieved
over tie TACT that the stun was new thing, even
In the old country, and that none VI IL Was TO bs
had here